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" The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. "

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" No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed. "

" A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. "

" There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves. "

" The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. "

" The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. "

" It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom. "

" Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches. "

" Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. "

" Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. "

" Custom is the great guide to human life. "

" Men often act knowingly against their interest. "

" The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application. "

" The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. "

" Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. "

" To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. "

" What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. "

" Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. "

" Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. "

" The law always limits every power it gives. "

" A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. "

" Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man. "

" That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. "

" Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. "

" Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. "

" No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. "

" A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. "

" Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. "

" It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. "

" The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. "